Developer Stefan Dirsch is responsible for maintaining the openSUSE build scripts of the fglrx driver. In a message on the openSUSE developer mailing list, he appeals for a successor to take over the maintenance.

Users with ATI graphic cards have to rely on ATI/AMD proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration. The scripts are found in packages/SUSE when the ATI installer is extracted manually.

Among the benefits for the new maintainer are access to ATI's beta mailing list and early releases of the beta driver. The files are currently hosted in a git repository at phorox. Dirsch hopes to find someone whith not only the time to update the scripts, but who can also introduce new features.

On the OpenSuse announcement board, Marcus Meissner stated that as of November 30. 2008, official support for OpenSuse 10.2 will end. After that, Novell/the OpenSuse Project will provide no further security updates for Version 10.2.

The recent mail from Novell titled "Upcoming maintenance requirement to access patches and service packs for select Novell products" only adds confusion for Linux customers. As it turns out, nothing much has changed.